The NCAA has just opened up another tray of Pandora's Box.

May 24, 2024, 8:43 AM

OK, so now the schools can pay athletes directly.

1) Who do you pay?
2) Will there be some salary cap on payments, so that all schools have an equal chance at those players whose prime motivation is money?
3) Do you pay starters one salary, scrubs a lower one, and for sure, this is the end of walk-ons. Unless...

What if, now that players are employees, they have to pay their own way through school? Why should the Universities pay their way, and then pay them a salary on top of that? The cost of their education should come out of their salaries, the way I see it.

If there is not some sort of limit put on it, the BIG and SEC will soon own ALL the first class athletes. It just makes sense. If I think I am good enough to play in the NFL, I am going to go to the highest paid minor league team, which is where college football will be now.

Here is some more food for thought. When players leave college, they are not free to just sign with any NFL team. Unless they are not drafted, they have to sign with the team that drafted them, or they don't play. Who is to say that, now that colleges are paid farm systems for the NFL, that that same system is not put in place for high school and Portal Players? Schools would have a draft order, and could only pick players via that draft, until all rounds of it were over. Then, the "Have Not" schools would get to choose from the dregs left over. It could happen.